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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don't know the first thing about it.

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Niels Bohr
Age: 77 †
Born: 1885
Born: October 7
Died: 1962
Died: November 18
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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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It is difficult to predict, especially the future.
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If you aren't confused by quantum mechanics, you haven't really understood it.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn't understood it.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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If we couldn't laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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In physics we deal with states of affairs much simpler than those of psychology and yet we again and again learn that our task is not to investigate the essence of things-we do not at all know what this would mean&mashbut to develop those concepts that allow us to speak with each other about the events of nature in a fruitful manner.
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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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No paradox, no progress.
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